Turns out, some people disagree. Most recently, Peter Seibel, the author of “Coders at Work” book of interviews, wrote this blog post titled “Code is not literature”.

It was sometime after that presentation that I finally realized the obvious: code is not literature. We don’t read code, we decodeit. We examine it. A piece of code is not literature; it is a specimen.

It’s an interesting read, filled with quotes and references to some of the smartest people in IT and Computer Science.